Today's Stichomancy for Ashlee Simpson

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James:

the day she had peeped in; he had just come out--was in town, in a
tweed suit and a pot hat, but between two journeys--duly bored over
his evening and at a loss what to do with it. Then it was that she
was glad she had never met him in that way before: she reaped with
such ecstasy the benefit of his not being able to think she passed
often. She jumped in two seconds to the determination that he
should even suppose it to be the very first time and the very
oddest chance: this was while she still wondered if he would
identify or notice her. His original attention had not, she
instinctively knew, been for the young woman at Cocker's; it had
only been for any young woman who might advance to the tune of her